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 | | Wednesday, 6 March, 2002, 06:53 GMT 'Green' energy targets set to rise  Report calls for growth in renewable energy sources Wales needs a dramatic increase in the number of windfarms to meet suggested new targets for the generation of renewable energy, according to a new report. The Welsh Assembly's Economic Development Committee is expected to urge the adoption of a target to produce enough electricity from renewable sources by 2010 to supply more than 3m homes, and doubling that figure by 2020.
To achieve that target, Wales will have to adopt a wide-range of environmentally-friendly technologies including a large expansion of photovoltaic - or PV - electricity production in homes and offices. The report also envisages wind-energy production growing by four times, in addition to a ten-fold increase in the number of solar-heated water installations. Major windfarm projects in Wales are already the source of controversy. In December 2001 UK Energy Minister Brian Wilson gave the go-ahead for the biggest wind farm in the Britain to be built in Ceredigion in west Wales. Once built, the �35m development at Cefn Croes should supply nearly 50% of the electricity needs of Ceredigion and 1% of the needs of Wales. Tidal barrage Another windfarm is proposed for the Cambrian Mountains in mid Wales by a group called Camddwr. The report before the assembly on Wednesday suggests the construction of a small tidal barrage on an estuary the size of the Conwy as part of the move to renewable energies. | |
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